Cabbages and kings

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Pagina 39 The air was languorous with the scent of jasmin and orange-blossoms. The
consul stayed his steps at the house of Bernard Brannigan. Paula was swinging
in a hammock on the gallery. She rose from it like a bird from its nest. The colour
came ...

Pagina 96 Ye'll be hypnotized. Any gentleman in the audience who kindly steps upon the
stage and looks this country in the eye will be converted to the hypothesis that
he's but a fly in the Elgin creamery. Ye'll be standing knee deep in the surf waiting
for ...

Pagina 162 Blanchard, the French mining engineer, in his cool linen viewed the smoke of his
cigarette through his calm glasses, impervious to the heat. Clancy sat on the steps, smoking his short pipe. His mood was the gossip's ; the others were
reduced, ...

Pagina 171 I steps out of the ranks and goes up to that General De Vega man, who was
smokin' a cigar and gazin' upon the scene with satisfactions and glory. He smiles
at me polite and devilish. ' Plenty work,' says he, ' for big, strong mans in
Guatemala.

Pagina 195 His curt greeting and the ominous light in his full, grey eye quickened the steps of
" Beelzebub," whom desperation had almost incited to attempt an additional "
loan." Three drinking shops the forlorn one next visited in succession. In all of ...